• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Are toll roads less of a scam than free roads though? At least toll road construction and maintenance is funded by drivers.

    It’s a regressive tax, but so are state taxes.

    • AJ Sadauskas@aus.socialOP
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      6 months ago

      @alcoholicorn It is when it has been privatised to a company that pretty much pays no tax (hi Transurban!), for roads that taxpayers helped to pay for, and those toll roads connect car dependent suburbs that have next to no public transport.

      • Tower@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Also when we’re told the tolls are to pay for the road, but after the road is paid off, the toll stays…

        • hayes_@sh.itjust.works
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          6 months ago

          Not disagreeing with your core point but infrastructure is never paid off.

          Upkeep on a mile of asphalt is way more than I expected and I live somewhere temperate.